Subject: Re: Bug involving mdir
From: Stephen Edie (sedie@terraplex.com)
Date: Tue Dec 14 1999 - 09:24:54 MST
I guess this goes on record as a bug?? :)
Stephen
Terra Soft Solutions, Inc.
Yellow Dog Linux
"The Ultimate Companion for a Dedicated Server"
http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/
On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, Jim Cole wrote:
> Like you, I don't even have a floppy drive connected to the machine. I just
> tried it again with the same result. Specifically, I entered
>
> mdir tmp/blah
>
> as a non-root user in a kvt terminal. The system locked up for about 2 minutes
> and then rebooted.
>
> There is nothing particularly unique about the system. 99% of what is
> installed either came directly off of YD CD or the YD site.
>
> Jim
>
> Stephen Edie's bits of Thu, 9 Dec 1999 translated to:
>
> > Hmm, I just 'bravely' tried it on my system without a floppy disk (or a
> > floppy drive for that matter) and it did what I would expect it to do.
> > "Can't open /dev/fd0: No such device\nCannot initialize 'A:'"
> >
> > Did you have a floppy disk in the drive when you typed, err mistyped it?
> >
> > Stephen
> >
> > Terra Soft Solutions, Inc.
> > Yellow Dog Linux
> > "The Ultimate Companion for a Dedicated Server"
> > http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Jim Cole wrote:
> >
> > > While attempting to create a directory, I had a finger glitch and ended up
> > > typing mdir <somedir> rather than mkdir <somedir>. The result was that it
> > > completely toasted the system. Everything locked up rock solid. I went to
> > > another room and tried to log into the machine with no luck. When I got
> > > back, the machine was rebooting.
> > >
> > > Is this a known issue? Seems a pretty stiff penalty for a typo as a
> > > non-root user ;) Good thing I don't actually need mtools.
> > >
> > > This problem occurred on a PowerBook G3 (Lombard) installed with CS 1.1
> > > and the "experimental" 2.2.12 kernel released for YellowDog.
> > >
> > > Linux freyr.yggdrasill.net 2.2.12-2 #1 Fri Oct 8 18:07:08 MDT 1999 ppc
> > > unknown
> > >
> > >
> > > Jim
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>
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